Daughters Of Shadow And Blood - Book I: Yasamin

Buda, Ottoman Hungary, 1599Yasamin, the daughter of an Ottoman bureaucrat, finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to the son of the powerful Pasha of Buda. Unprepared for the gossip and scheming rampant in the palace, she dreams of a different life. But when someone tries to drown her in the baths the day before her wedding, Yasamin realizes she faces more than petty jealousies. An unearthly menace lurks in the palace corridors, threatening everyone from the youngest servant girl to the Pasha himself. The one person able to protect Yasamin is a soldier named Iskander, who seems to appear whenever she needs him. Charming and confident, he is nothing like her new husband, but trusting either could be a lethal mistake. Berlin, Germany, 1999Adam Mire, an American professor of history, receives a worn, marked-up copy of Dracula from a friend who died of anything but natural causes. A simple business card inserted between the pages sends Adam on a journey across the haunted landscape of Eastern Europe in search of a medallion once possessed by Dracula himself. Along the way, Adam encounters others after the medallion, some willing to kill for it. To find the answers to his questions, Adam has no choice but to seek out a beguiling, raven-haired woman named Yasamin Ashrafi, possibly the first of Dracula's legendary Brides. But Adam has an agenda of his own, a quest more personal than anyone knows. One misstep, and his haunted past could lead to death by an assassin's blade ... or Yasamin's fatal embrace.

• | Author: J. Matthew Saunders
• | Publisher: Saint George'S Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 19, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 398 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0986333115
• | ISBN-13: 9780986333118